Circus Pony I & II

Circus Pony is an ongoing sideshow act that invites the audience to submit to corporal punishment by the cute and shrieking Pony. Pony begs for tips, screams insults, begs for approval, and dances while engaging in intimate power negotiations with audience members.

This work investigates the girlhood coming-of-age ritual of "playing ponies," while contrasting the pubescent cry for attention and love, via performing 'cuteness,' with the aggressive, often animalistic, bullying and power dynamics that accompanies femininity.